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...Franco-London Films; Arthur Davis) is a comical French version of the Faust legend. Writer-Director Rene Clair tells the story of Dr. Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for youth, power and pleasure, in terms of satire rather than spiritual conflict. In this version, Mephisto is a merry old devil who assumes the shape of the aging Faust while the latter becomes a dashing young student. With the help of the beautiful young gypsy. Marguerite, the rejuvenated Faust finally triumphs over Mephisto in a happy ending...
Polite Little Smile. One of the most charming portraits in the show is of a beautiful five-year-old in a sailor suit, meant to be Vertès himself. At 55, he looks like a heavy-set Mephisto, whose brow, nose and mouth form three emphatic Vs. "My friends," Vertès admits, "smile a little at my self-portrait and say very politely, 'I don't think it's too much...
...R.A.F. transport plane and bustled up to the city. In the next days bigwigs in paneled Whitehall offices and hard-working operations officers in the low buildings of coastal airdromes spent time looking into a pair of piercing, watery blue eyes peering out from under uptwirled Mephisto eyebrows. Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, one of the hottest top-ranking officers that the R.A.F. has produced in World War II, was back from Canada...
...Guggenheim fellowships worth about $4,500, took last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos, a Whitmanesque Secular Mass, a Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production of a new one-act Nordoff opera, The Masterpiece, proved the most diverting event of a season in which...
...program is the "Elegie" by Gabriel Faure, noted French teacher and composer. This work, in which the cello soloist will be Jean Bedetti, has no pretensions to be outstanding, and merely seeks to charm the listener by its lyrical qualities. The number which follows the "Elegie" is Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" and it too, in addition to various satanic passages, has a highly emotional section which is often compared with the music in the second act of "Tristan and Isolde." To relieve these two works, the program ends with Ravel's "Rhapsodie Espagnole...